Sentences with phrase «generates carbon debt»

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The qualitative result that growth in bioenergy raises atmospheric CO2 does not depend on the parameters: as long as bioenergy generates an initial carbon debt, increasing harvests mean more is «borrowed» every year than is paid back.

For a given power source, the emissions released during its construction put it into «carbon debt» and it takes a while of generating carbon - free energy for it to work itself to the break - even point.